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17th century tennis poem, featuring an etching after Adriaen van de Venne (1589-1662) depicting lovers playing battledore and shuttlecock in a garden

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£95
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£150 - £200

17th century tennis poem, featuring an etching after Adriaen van de Venne (1589-1662) depicting lovers playing battledore and shuttlecock in a garden and titled AMOR, UT PILA, VICES EXIGIT [LOVE, LIKE A BALL, DEMANDS RECIPROCATION] etching, above various verse, published in The Hague: 1632, a translation to English is found to the reverse of the mounting, overall 52 by 38cm., foxing but reasonably good